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Family Law Practitioner's Apprentice

If you've taken the first step towards automating your family law practice, you may have word processing documents that you use as templates to generate Separation Agreements or Judgment Entries. That's better than having no templates, but it has several drawbacks.

One drawback is that changes related to gender and number can be difficult to track. For instance, have you ever reviewed a document at court and noticed an embarrassing, typographical error, like referring to the husband as "she?" Or making a reference to "children" when the parties have only one child? Over the years, proofreading these familiar documents becomes increasingly difficult as constant, repeated exposure makes errors harder to spot.

Another drawback relates to global variables—that is, information that remains constant from one document to the next in the same case (for example, the case number, the parties' names and addresses, and a host of other items). Without Family Law Practitioner's Apprentice (FLPA), from the initial complaint to the final judgment entry, you're constantly re-entering information from one document to the next. This is true even with separate templates.

FLPA handles these issues by having you make one-time selections as to the gender of the parties and then FLPA consistently changes all the nouns, pronouns, verbs and adjectives to agree with your selections. Other basic information is handled the same way. Global variables are administered globally.

In other words, once you enter the parties' names and case number in the worksheet, the information populates all the forms and pleadings automatically. Formatting and typing captions will be a thing of the past. You enter repetitive information once! When it's correct the first time, you save time. No more brainless grammatical errors in an otherwise perfect document.

Going Global

The faster you can generate perfect documents, the more you save in case preparation time and staff time. That's why we give you the added ability to (1) set global defaults via our DEFAULT.FLP file and (2) modify the program templates to customize documents for your specific uses. So, if you have certain, personalized, provisions in a particular document, you could alter our Separation Agreement template to include your specific language—permanently.

Speed Thrills

The whole point of FLPA is for you to produce better documents faster. It's especially user-friendly to law offices. Why law offices? Because they are emergency rooms for the treatment of legal problems—you're meeting deadlines, locating witnesses, taking depositions, interviewing clients, and the list goes on. Typical law offices do not have the luxury of lazy afternoons with nothing to do. There is simply no time to work on improving computer skills. But while the typical law office computer user may be computer illiterate, they are usually word processor wise! Why not? Documents are part of a law office's stock-in-trade.

Feature List

In addition to completing all the documents listed in the shaded box to the left, FLPA produces sets of blank worksheets that can be given to clients for completion.

FLPA is able to extract information from Ohio Spousal Support Calculator (MA) so you only need to enter data one time and both programs can use it. It's no exaggeration to say that with the client worksheets and our 3-pack of family law programs (FLPA, MA & WROCSG), you'll be preparing for the final hearing in the initial interview.

FLPA can extract child support amounts from Revised Ohio Child Support Guidelines (WROCSG). It doesn't stop there, however, because FLPA can also create and seed a child support file, leaving very little to do but review and print the child support worksheet. WROCSG is required to utilize this feature.

FLPA is a trial preparation tool that can organize and print marital assets, marital debts, income information, living expenses, and more.

FLPA works seamlessly with any Windows word processor capable of opening RTF files, including Microsoft's Word for Windows and Corel's WordPerfect.

FLPA works in all 32-bit Windows systems and is available in network versions.

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